DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Thursday, January 30th became a busy day for us at the CAC.C. The Clemson Architectural Foundation (CAF) came down to visit the city and take a walking tour. The master's students of the Community Build certificate program were asked to meet the group at the Eric Cornelius Singleton II Park to represent the program and [...]
The studio’s first design review is quickly approaching, and we’re in full production mode, refining our final design decisions before moving into creating presentation-quality drawings. Our shared workspace is a testament to the process, covered wall-to-wall with sketches full of the design iterations of our ideas, soon to be accompanied by physical models we will [...]
Workload amongst small groups is ramping up this week in preparation for our presentations on Friday, where we will discuss each of our ideas with the city for our new gazebo designs. Three different iterations of design ideas were shared amongst the class today, stemming from the three groups the class has been split into. [...]
The last few days have been anything but ordinary. Watching the city of Charleston reopen after the snow is an interesting experience, especially having grown up in the Midwest, where snow is a normal occurrence. Something that I have never seen before though is snow on the beach! I got to experience snow on the [...]
Something about a Palmetto amid snow in an empty parking lot.. Looking forward to the coming weeks distilling down thoughts and ideas for our Plymouth Park Pavilion structure. Many different ideas being thrown around, but I think the common theme in the group is duality in architecture - elements that are convertible or that serve [...]
As many of you know, there is supposed to be a major cold front moving through Charleston within the next 48 hours. One that can bring many people back to the snowfall of January 2018. Approximately six years ago, Charlestonians experienced one of the biggest snowfalls of its history with 5.3 inches of snow which [...]
Good morning and happy Martin Luther King Day! Dating back to the fall of 2010, Clemson University has had a profound impact on the landscape of Charleston as we know it today. 30 semesters of Design + Build studios at the Clemson Architecture Center Charleston (CACC) have yielded dozens of structures across the city. Every [...]
Today was an eventful day for myself and all of my classmates at the CAC.C. In Community 1:1, we all conducted research on the 10 provided Non-Profit organizations. Based on our research, we decided which organization we fit with the best to work with throughout the semester. David Pastre brought us all together to go [...]
For our first weekend in Charleston, a handful of the studio got together and carpooled downtown to check out our first Second Sunday Market! We were very lucky because it was a beautiful clear, sunny day. The group got to explore some of the downtown shops for the first time and try a few pop-up [...]
To kick off the semester, the new Community-Build studio spent the last week exploring our site at Plymouth Park and the city of Charleston as a whole to understand the entire context of where we’ll all be working and building. Located in the Riverland Terrace community, Plymouth Park serves as a local gathering point with [...]